FARMINGTON, Utah – Three field goals from 40-plus yards made by junior kicker Hunter Ridley and a performance that saw senior linebacker Jackson Cloyd spend much of his evening in the Grizzly backfield earned the No. 4 UC Davis football pair Big Sky weekly honors following the Aggies 30-14 win at No. 7 Montana.
 
Ridley nailed field goals from 42, 41 and 40 yards, including hitting a buzzer beater at the end of the half to solidify an Aggie lead. His 40-yard field goal midway through the fourth quarter put the final touches on the Aggie win on national television.
 
The Aggie linebacker found himself making plays all night, as part of an Aggie defense that held Montana to a season-low 286 total offensive yard Cloyd finished with two sacks, three tackles for loss and five total tackles.
 
Cloyd becomes the third Aggie to earn Big Sky Defensive Player of the Week, joining redshirt junior linebacker David Meyer (Sept. 9, Nov. 5) and junior linebacker Porter Connors (Sept. 2).
 
For Ridley, he becomes the first Aggie to earn Big Sky Special Teams Player of the Week honors since punter Daniel Whelan earned the honor in 2021 and he becomes the first Aggie kicker to earn the honor since Isaiah Gomez took home the award several weeks prior to Whelan in that 2021 season.